my friend recently got a 5700LE. He overclocked it a lot - doubled the core speed as a matter of fact. Now I am curious if there is any softmod, or if a bios-swap will work to get it from a 5700le to a full vanilla 5700 or higher. Is there anything, or not? i have been looking around the net but haven't found anything.

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No the 5700 is its own core. It's a 2x2/4X1 hybrid model. It isnt based off the Nv35, It's the Nv36.

he's right. dont be fooled by the way nvidia likes to number the GPU cores. just cause the 5900 is the nv35, doesnt mean that the nv36 is related. we (consumers) have to watch out for things like that cause it's all about marketing.